Stories tagged “pain”

“Thank you,” I say as I stand smoothly out of my chair. The weight of ceiling starts to make the structure we’re in groan as I bring my attention upwards. I started to walk out of the stale, cramped room when I hear him whimper. Like ...

“I am aware exactly how loyal you are.” said Mister N. reaching into the breast pocket of his five thousand dollar jacket. The price didn’t matter half as much as the image, the fit and the feel. He withdrew a pen whose casing was a d...

Docile
Live lobsters
Packed in a wax box
Grab them by their smooth body
Where there are no spikes
Their eyes are black tubes
They feel the pressure of your fingers
Grasp
Those eyes move independently
Bugging around
Their arms splay
Trying to shred your...

Sandra stood at the doorway to their bedroom, constantly looking back over her shoulder, at the sleeping form of Sarah. Her daughter! Each time, she expected to see the same flat blankets that had lain empty for thirteen years and each time her heart s...

“What is the second rule of the guild?”
Maul could hear his voice from five years ago, eagerly chanting the required words. These words would change his life. By the skin on my back, I will not betray any of our brothers of my own free will...

Soft blonde hair
Baby blue eyes
That witnessed as her mother died
I can’t even imagine the way she must feel inside
The horror she witnessed
The jaded world she sees
She has barely reached the age of three
If I can do something
If there’s...

The pain. The pain was simply unbearable. The tears were hot, flowing, a torrent of water. It burned my eyes, turned my skin sticky and red. I couldn’t stand it. If only there was a way to end the pain. But then the pain was gone, just as suddenl...

Drowning in yourself…
That has to be the worst feeling.
Knowing that you’re causing it,
But also knowing that you can’t… stop it.
Why lie to yourself?
What’s the point…
You’re killing yourself slowly
And there’s nothing your mind will l...

She can’t describe the feeling.
There are no words. no synonyms or acronyms to explain it.
It’s just…hurt.
Hurt to the core of her being.
Sometimes it hurts so bad she can’t breathe; she can’t focus or think about anything...

The girl took a step back from me, a hand creeping to her mouth.
“Umm, is that normal?” she asked, nodding toward the blood streaks running down the spears of grass.
Normal? I tried to connect anything to that word but nothing came to mind....

Rain came down. Rain came left, and rain came right. Some rain defied all logic and came upwards from the heaving deck.
Miguel swayed, a turbulent green attempting to show on his darkened face. He had been at sea forty-seven days, more than he’d ...

“It’s a debt I must pay. I have accepted that. If I get to speak to you only this once, I am not interested in telling my story, but another. May I?…Two beautiful girls and a handsome little boy were subjected to this. The oldest, my ...

Intense
“I – I can’t believe you promised you will do that! You’ve always told me love is more important that anything. I believed you.” His words are harsh, the utterances flutter against the fine hairs in your ears.
“Take it back,...

I wonder if I write
random fragments of
poetry and
words,
that something somewhere deep within
the crevices of my long forgotten mind will
snap
and
click into place, and
the fragments will find a way to fill the
void
and
somehow close the portals a...

I had a dream that burned my brain
last night as it seeped through like acid to
drip down the rest of my body.
And like a cliff-hanger or something,
he told me about this kiss.
A kiss that, generally, was wrong.
And a kiss that hurt my heart.
My own, p...

For the first time in my life, I want to get drunk.
People would always laugh at me when I told them I have never been drunk. I would tell them that wasn’t my idea of fun.
Then would come the stories. All the crazy things they did when they were ...

As the details of the scene became clear, my grogginess fell away, leaving behind a strange sense of unfamiliarity with my own body. My arm seemed to throb in time with the ebb and flow of the fire gripping the yellow coals. I tried to clasp my hand to...